Chapter 97

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Lín Jìn's fingertip brushed over the fang's surface, the nano swarm gnawing the sugar frost made a rustling sound like countless ants crawling inside the skull. As the last amber-colored crystal peeled off, the light-year formula etched by Ling Yue with umbilical blood revealed its true form—those dark red lines winding across the metal surface, like a dried-up blood vessel network suddenly infused with life, beginning to emit a faint blue cold light.

Ao Li's mechanical eye suddenly triggered an overload alarm, the liquid metal eye sockets exuding pale gold dragon blood. The blood vaporized on contact with air, forming three rotating Fibonacci sequence holographic projections. 'Biological dynamic code......' her electronic throat distorted from energy overload, 'requires the resonance frequency of primate fetus umbilical blood......'

When Lín Jìn's wrist blade cut the artery, the nano swarm immediately wove a hemostatic membrane at the wound. A droplet of blood fell onto the formula's starting point, actually moving like a living thing along the pattern. The formula segments the blood passed lit up one by one, projecting nebula-shaped light spots onto the fang's surface. When the blood droplets gathered at the fang's root, they suddenly condensed into a waveform of fetal heartbeat, generating quantum entanglement with the vibration of Lín Jìn's chest cavity.

Ao Zhan's neural network condensed into a solid form atop the cabin, black lightning crackling between his fingers: 'You think this primitive verification can stop the god-slaying program?' The energy beam striking the fang instantly reversed the formula pattern, reflecting the attack energy as a gamma-ray burst. Ao Zhan's left-side energy body was burned into a honeycomb void, the leaking dark matter etched screaming human faces onto the cabin walls.

Twelve muffled gear-meshing sounds came from inside the fang, the bronze armor layers unfolding like mechanical lotuses one after another. The vocal cord crystal floating at the core spun on its own, its surface covered in black vasculature formed by the erosion of the Taichu She Shen Jing. When Ao Li's dragon blood splashed onto the crystal surface, those black vasculature suddenly receded, releasing Ling Yue's encrypted voiceprint: '...... when the star fleet fang pierces the heavens, use mother's labor pains to awaken the sleeping......'

Interference waves cut off the recording like a blade, the cabin suddenly filled with the echo of infant wails and metal friction. Lín Jìn's temples throbbed, the nano swarm projecting a micro-scan of the fang's inner side onto the optic nerve—the intersecting wear patterns perfectly matching the scratches on Ling Yue's delivery room operating table from twenty years ago.

"What mother left behind during childbirth......" Lín Jìn's trembling fingertip traced the pattern, the nano swarm suddenly swarming en masse. They gnawed the metal surface, filling missing parts with their secretions. The moment repair completed, a microcosmic model of Medicine King Valley's spiritual veins appeared on the fang's surface, each vein's tip extending a bronze arrowhead pointing toward the Lengque Jing.

Ao Li's mechanical heart suddenly burst with an overfrequency alarm, lubricant spitting sparks from the gear meshing point. She tore open her chest armor, pulling out a half-melted page of the Taichu She Shen Jing. The scorched pages self-ignited in the fang's light, ash reassembling in midair into Ling Yue's handwritten annotation: 'The god-slaying cannon's energy core is actually an umbilical blood converter, each destroyed divine realm generating a new embryo......'

The Starship suddenly shuddered violently; outside the Fang Core Guancejing, a holographic projection of Medicine King Valley appeared. Thousands of Qishen Paotai on the surface were charging, and within the antimatter light spheres gathering at their muzzles, star charts of All Heavens and Ten Thousand Realms floated. The energy body of Arrogant War wandered the hull walls, and the scorched parts had already regenerated snake scales: "Enjoy the view, in thirty minutes all parallel universes will witness the ultimate purification!"

Lín Jìn's wisdom tooth suddenly throbbed with pain; the Nano Swarm was drilling out of the pulp chamber. They carried blocked memory data—infancy, the scene of his own umbilical cord being plugged into the Starship's mainframe. When he pressed his blood‑stained palm against the Fang Core verification platform, the Lengque Jing coordinates suddenly extended a three‑dimensional anatomical diagram: at the bottom of the well slept three hundred First‑Generation clones immersed in amniotic fluid.

"Those are......" Ao Li's mechanical eye suddenly lost focus, and the remaining human memory area flashed with a scene from twenty years ago: Ling Yue had secretly swapped out the experimental embryo, which Arrogant War had turned into a bio‑battery. Her dragon horn suddenly burst with high‑frequency vibration, synchronizing the Starship shield's frequency to the Lengque Jing coordinates.

Arrogant War's energy body suddenly split into countless black beetles, gnawing at the Fang Core armor in an attempt to invade the core. Lín Jìn's Nano Swarm immediately erected a defense line; the two kinds of mechanical lifeforms waged a microscopic war on the metal surface. Whenever the black beetles gained the upper hand, Ling Yue's vocal‑cord crystals released a lullaby infrasound that disrupted their energy circuits.

"Biological verification second stage activated." A cold mechanical sound suddenly rang out, and the Fang Core extended thirty‑six neural conduits that stabbed into Lín Jìn's spine. His memory cortex flooded with the pain data from Ling Yue's childbirth, and those quantized neural signals were rewriting the formula parameters. The Medicine King Valley's geological model suddenly flipped, exposing the antimatter reactor buried beneath the Lengque Jing—its core shape was precisely an enlarged infant embryo.

Ao Li's mechanical arm suddenly plugged into the verification platform interface, and the residual dragon blood in her body flowed through the conduits into the formula patterns. When the two kinds of blood merged at the root of the Fang Core, bronze‑colored rain began to fall inside the cabin. Each drop exploded on the ground into a holographic projection: the image of Ling Yue, before her death, engraving the escape program onto her own Zigong wall, which perfectly overlapped the present Lengque Jing coordinates.

Arrogant War's black beetle swarm suddenly coalesced into a humanoid form, and his energy body's density tripled: "Death‑struggle!" But this attack was blocked by a suddenly materialized formula barrier, and the rebounding energy wave carved the pattern of the Beidou Seven Stars onto the hull wall. Lín Jìn's retina flashed with the latter half of Ling Yue's unfinished encrypted recording—it was actually the Shengwen Miyue that activates the Starship Zihui Mijian.

When the countdown showed seventeen minutes left, the Fang Core verification platform suddenly split open. The biological signals of the three hundred clones surged through Lín Jìn's neural filaments, constructing a phantom of Ling Yue in his consciousness space. Her abdominal wound was oozing starlight: "Child, true labor is about to begin......"